Why EMC thinks it’s ready to power the internet of things

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EMC President Jeremy Burton came on the Structure Show podcast this week to talk about the company’s current plan to deliver hybrid cloud-storage systems and its future plan to provide the infrastructure underpinning the next generation of big data and internet-of-things applications.

Despite major shakeups among its large IT-vendor peers over the past few years, storage giant EMC maintains that it’s more than capable of sticking around for the long haul and housing data for even the most-innovative types of applications. This week, Jeremy Burton, president of products at EMC, came on the Structure Show podcast to explain the company’s plans for the years to come.

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Akanda exits stealth and promises better routing in virtualized networks

By Jonathan Vanian

  

Summary: The San Francisco-based startup took in a seed round of $1.5 million. Its open-source software can virtualize the part of the network that handles intelligent routing with IP addresses.

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Akanda, a San Francisco-based startup that aims to improve routing in a virtualized network, has come out of stealth and taken a seed-funding round of $1.5 million. Web-hosting provider DreamHost helped co-found the company and supplied all of the seed-round funding.
The two-man shop, less than a month old, consists of CEO Henrik Rosendahl, a virtualization veteran who recently helped sell CloudVolumes to VMware and CTO Mark McClain, who was the former project team lead of the OpenStack Neutron networking project and a former DreamHost senior developer.

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Microsoft makes its cloud data move

    

By Andrew J. Brust

 

Summary: Microsoft’s cloud data stack was short and slow-growing. But this summer, something changed, raising its stature considerably.

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It’s taken Microsoft quite a while to get traction in the cloud, and even longer for it to get its cloud data story right. For the longest time, things weren’t looking good. I say that as someone who has worked with – and at various times championed – Microsoft technology for most of my career. As much as I’ve wanted Microsoft to do well in the cloud data arena, I thought it was doomed to an eternity of near misses.

Fast forward

But things have been steadily improving since the summer, especially in the last few weeks. The glass that was half empty in the spring is now nearly full, with a complete HDInsight Big Data service based on Hadoop 2.0; an able machine learning service called Azure Machine Learning; a document store NoSQL database called DocumentDB; a publish-subscribe service for capturing streaming data called Event Hubs; a service for processing and analyzing that data called Azure Stream Analytics; a data transformation workflow service called Data Factory; and an eponymous Search service based on ElasticSearch at its core.

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